Receiving advance reports of a plot to attack Japanese lines on January 28, the seventh cnniyersary of the Start of the 1932 Shanghai incident, a J panese garrison in the Hangchow area on January 25 started operations to take (guerillas by surprise, and completely frustrated their plans, a Japanese army spokesman revealed here yesterday afternoon.
Japanese troops attacked about 500 guerillas im the vicinity of Matowkwan, 40 kilometres north-west of Hangchow, and killed 30. The Japanese suffered no losses. At midnight on January 25 a Japanese unit routed about 40 guerillas south of Hsienchiao, 20 kilometres north-east of Hangchow.
Near Tehtsing, 45 kilometres north of Hangchow, Japanese troops at 5 o'clock in the morning of January 26 defeated about 200 guerillas, who left 20 dead.
At 7 o'clock in the evening of January 25 a Japanese detachment stottered 1,000 guerillas armed with trench mortars and machine-guns in the vicinity of Yuchiatsun, 80 kilometres west of Hangchow. The Chinese left 100 dead. Five Japanese were wounded.
It is learned from an authoritative source that Clarence Harry, former well-known City financier, was released from Maidstone prison last week.
Since his release, Harry has been staying in a flat in Mayfair, where is wife has lived for some years. They are expected to leave London today.
Harry received his sentence of penal servitude in the Old Bailey on January 24, 1930. Justice Avery, in pronouncing the sentence at that time, told him: "You stand convicted by your own confession of one of the most appalling frauds which has ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country."—Reuter.
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